Surgical bandage.



PATENTBD AUG. l5, 1905.

C. FUHRHANS. SURGIGAL BANDG'E.

Mrmcwmx FILED PEB. 16. ma.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. l5, 1905.

Application filed February 16, 1903. Serial No. 143,666.

Be it known that L CARL Funnix-mss, a subject of the King of Bavaria. residing at Munich, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Surgical Bandages; and I do hereby declare the following' to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suchv will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to malte and use the same.

The present invention relates to plaster-ot'- paris bandages used in surgical operations for the dressing of fractured limbs, the correction of malformations and the like; and it consists, essentially, in providing suchbandages with wire or other strengthenilig-stays. The wire or other reinforcement may project at the ends of the bandage, and when it is required to remove the hardened bandage these wires or other stays may be grasped and will greatly facilitate the unwinding of the bandage.

ln order to render the present specification easily intelligible, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a plan of part of a bandage having a wire-netting reinforcement. Fig'. Q is a section taken through the same, and Fig'. 3 is a plan of a modilied form of the bandage.

The ordinary 1j)laster-of-paris bandage ft, which consists of a thin layer of plaster-ofparis located between two layers of tulle, gauze, or other suitable material, is provided with a reinforcement of wire-netting or of single wires, strings, or other stays of suitable strong material, as represented in F ig. 1 in the form of netting at?) and in Fig. 3 inthe form of longitudinal wires or strings. rlhe end of the netting or of the string's ln'eferably extends out of the bandage and may be provided with a handle, as at c. When the bandage is to be taken oil, it maybe easily and conveniently unwound by grasping the handle and tearing it olf, as will be readily understood.

The reinforcement or stay used by me is distinct `from the bandage itself and is not to be confused with bandag'es in which, as is well known, a fabric is frequently used as a base or container for a hardening material and sometimes quilted, as shown in Patent No. 283,478, or with structures in which rigid or resilient braces are used in connection with setting-bandages, as disclosed in `Patents Nos. 216,680 and 221,568, or with flexible wire l structures into which no hardening substance enters, such as shown in Patent No. 423,490, with all of which l am familiar and to which I malte no claim. '.lhe essential feature of my invention, on the contrary, is a reinforced bandage which is strong and Aflexible as a whole, possessing plasticity when applied, and which thereafter sets in position and in which the stays and hardening material cooperate to secure a degree of rigidity and strength hitherto unattained.

lVhile, preferably, l. employ a container of fabric for the plaster-of-paris or other hardening' substance, in some ci ses the hardening substance may have a holding material incorporated therewith to render the same tenacious and in others the nature of the hardening substance may cause .it to be held by the inlaid netting alone.

W'hat l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A surgical bandage comprising a hardening substance provided with a netting' of nonresilient material extending through the same.

2. A surgical bandage comp rising a hardening substance provided. with inlaid stays extending diagonally thereof and a holding' material.

3. A surgical bandage coxmn'ising plasterof-paris provided with inlaid stays extending diagonally thereof and a holding material.

fl. A. surgical bandage comprising' plasterof-paris provided with inlaid wire stays and a holding material.

of-paris provided with inlaid wim-netting.

6. A. surgical bandage comprising a hardeningsubstance provided with inlaid wire stays extending diagonally thereof and a holding material.

T. A surgical bandage comprising plasterof-paris provided with inlaid wire-netting', the several wires extendingdiagonally thereof.

8. A surg'icz bandage com prising layers of fabric,and an interposed hardening substance, in combination with flexible wires embedded within said hardening substance.

9. A surgical bandage comprising layers of fabric, and interposed plaster-of-paris, in combination with wire -netting embedded within the plaster-of-paris and extending through said bandage.

10. A surgical bandage provided with inlaid stays extending beyond the ends thereof, and handles attached to the projecting stays.

ll. A surgical bandage provided with inlaid A surgical bandage comprising' plasternon-elastic stays extending' beyond the ends thereof, and handles attached to the projecting stays. l

12. A surgical bandage comprising a hal'- dening substance provided with inlaid Wirenetting extending beyond the end thereof, and handles attached to the projecting netting.

18. A surgical bandage comprising layers ot' fabric, and interposed plastcr-of-paris, in combination with Wire stays embedded in the plaster-o't-paris and extending' beyond the end of the bandage, and a handle attached to the proljecting stays. 

